In work
This was the area of my life that I found -most challenging with the condition. It became impossible to have successful face-to-face interaction and using a phone became impossible. How has this impacted on your work?
So its been a while now since I've been on here- apologies to all! I must confess I wanted to write but have had many challenges and here are just a few; I've been put onto Universal Credit and this means I now get, almost £200.00 less benefit per month. I still have the fighting spirit to get a job though and this can only be achieved if the behaviours towards disabled applicants changes. I would consider working from home. In one recent telephone conversation I was asked why don't I have hearing aids? I was stumped by the question but really I should have responded by asking why they don't have hearing aids as (1) had they heard and understood my explanation of what its like to have Hyperacusis - the opposite to deafness (2) if they had they would have understood that a person with Hyperacusis hearing is like being in the middle of an orchestra and trying to have a conversation with someone that is 20 foot away being expected to hear and understand then give
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